Before you read it you actually don't just understand how little you understand about the LOTR universe. It even tells you what the seeing stones are and how they were formed, how dwarves came to be etc. Exactly what were those white water horses in LOTR at the river. The history of the name Glorfindel. It goes on and on.

My favourite tale was that of turgon and the fall of the hidden city. Did you read unfinished tales and the children of hurin standalone book?

Bolded part is especially true. It is amazing, the sheer volume of what Tolkien managed to accomplish within such a short time span. I absolutely loved the story of Ungoliant and how she sucked dry the tree. Treacherous bitch.

I've been meaning to buy The Children of Hurin for a couple months now, but every time I end up leaving the book store with another book under my arm. Last time I got The Swarm and the time before that I got Pillars of the Earth. I'm definitely getting it next time. ^__^

yodariquo said:

I started NiGHTS Wii; not really sure what to think of it. Only played about 45 minutes, though.

My daughter finished it this weekend. She loved it so that got me intrigued. Maybe I'll give it a spin later.

I fooling around and finding shortcuts in Mario Galaxy. I found that you can skip the swimming parts in Beach Bowl Galaxy. In the first star mission, go on the rock and longjump on top of the palmtree to the left. Than backflip-spin-wallkick-spin to reach the upper part. You can skip the entire swimming part of this level. With luigi you can just simple triple jump from the ground to reach it. The rest of the level you can use triple jump to skip the timed switches segments.

I also found that you do not need to use the spring Mario. Just backflip-spin-wallkick-spin to reach the top. Also found a shortcut, by jumping on the left hand of the robot, than jumping on his shoulder, than jumping on his neck and triple jumping on his head.

Well it should be easier to show a video. This video shows almost the same shortcuts I used.

Here some details which we could off collect at the time of the presentation of The House the Dead: Overkill on Wii, by Bradley Crooks, developer at Headstrong Ranges, on the private stand of Sega to the Ranges Convention in Leipzig. - Will the play be a shooter on rail very (too much?) similar to Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles on Wii, it s' will thus act to draw on the zombies with l' screen and in certain cases, it will be possible to save the civil ones to obtain no-claims bonus. Various items will be also hidden in the levels. - The play will be able to be played by using Wii Zapper. - It will be possible to draw on specific parts of the body of the zombies. - It will be possible of switcher between two weapons during the part. - It will be necessary to stir up Wiimote to demolish d' a zombie. - The realization of combo will make it possible to fill a special gauge and to free upgrades and others items. - A gauge adrenalin boost will make it possible to pass in slowed down mode when this one is filled. - The revealed level was in an infested fun fair of zombies with a boss of end under a capital. - The engine of the play was developed specifically for this play. - A coop mode will be available. - The play is a Wii exclusiveness. - The developers of the play were interested by Wiimotion Plus but being given l' advance of the project, it is too late to integrate the functionalities of l' accessory with the play

Before you read it you actually don't just understand how little you understand about the LOTR universe. It even tells you what the seeing stones are and how they were formed, how dwarves came to be etc. Exactly what were those white water horses in LOTR at the river. The history of the name Glorfindel. It goes on and on.

My favourite tale was that of turgon and the fall of the hidden city. Did you read unfinished tales and the children of hurin standalone book?

Bolded part is especially true. It is amazing, the sheer volume of what Tolkien managed to accomplish within such a short time span. I absolutely loved the story of Ungoliant and how she sucked dry the tree. Treacherous bitch.

I've been meaning to buy The Children of Hurin for a couple months now, but every time I end up leaving the book store with another book under my arm. Last time I got The Swarm and the time before that I got Pillars of the Earth. I'm definitely getting it next time. ^__^

yodariquo said:

I started NiGHTS Wii; not really sure what to think of it. Only played about 45 minutes, though.

My daughter finished it this weekend. She loved it so that got me intrigued. Maybe I'll give it a spin later.

I dont get or like NIGHTS wii at all but it's much better with wii pointer than analogue IMO.

I have this Bestiary book of LOTR which has these great paintings of scenes from all the books. The story of ungoliant was great. I personally wouldn't bother with children of hurin. It reads almost exactly the same as it does in the unfinished tales/simillarion but since it's disjointed it actually makes more sense and better reading as part of the simirillion.

That's pretty cool. You guys should check out the Overlord Wii vids, it looks really good.

Almost any level in Galaxy has multiple shortcuts. If you see something you just think you can jump to, you probably can! Bill Trinen said the gravity mechanics will lead to insane shortcuts, he was not kidding. I will now take a break in fluid dynamics to read up on the news.

Up to you really. We can always re-arrange ourselves. As long as you get like 17 updates which you can do in half an hour if you're quick. It doesn't mean you have to sit on the computer endlessly for hours.

Ok then. Give me some priveliges, and I can post 17 updates. Might be tricky at school (because I don't always have access to my RSS feeds), but if I get a good hour on a computer, I can post quite a lot.

To answer your other question - I've been playing very little. Though the news on more Street Fighter IV machines in Melbourne (and nearly readilly accessible to boot!) will give me an opportunity to do a write up on it, assuming that no one has already played it and done the same.

Ok then. Give me some priveliges, and I can post 17 updates. Might be tricky at school (because I don't always have access to my RSS feeds), but if I get a good hour on a computer, I can post quite a lot.

I will have to check both of those out. Yo, your idea about opening up news posting for public use. Since we all know each other here, giving the regulars here news posting privaledges would be ok. Just not if the userbase dramatically increased. What do you think? It would solve our posting dilemma.